Speaking on Russian organized crime at the Mob Museum in Las Vegas, October 17

Just to let people know, I’ll be holding forth on Organized Crime in Russia and its Global Impact at the Mob Museum in Las Vegas next month: you’ll find details (and how to get tickets) on their site here. I’ll be talking not just (or even mainly) about the situation in Russia, but the gangsters’ global spread, especially into the USA. There will be grisly anecdotes, vor tattoos, tales of deals done and pacts broken, and a cautionary tale about why the Russians may be less high-profile these days but are still very much a threat with which to be reckoned.

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Mark Galeotti

This blog’s author, Dr Mark Galeotti has been researching Russian history and security issues since the late 1980s.

Educated at Cambridge University and the LSE, he is now a senior researcher at the Institute of International Relations Prague and coordinates its Centre for European Security. He is also the director of the consultancy firm Mayak Intelligence. Previously he has been Professor of Global Affairs at New York University, head of the History department at Keele University in the UK, an adviser at the British Foreign Office and a visiting professor at MGIMO (Moscow), Charles University (Prague) and Rutgers (Newark), as well as a visiting fellow with the ECFR.

His books include ‘Spetsnaz: Russia’s Special Forces’ (Osprey) and ‘The Vory: Russia’s super mafia’ (Yale University Press) and the edited collections ‘The Politics of Security in Modern Russia’ (Ashgate) and ‘Russian & Soviet Organized Crime’ (Ashgate) and he is a regular contributor to Jane’s Intelligence Review, Oxford Analytica and many other outlets. He is a contributing editor to Business New Europe.

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